Investigation of Mexican Affairs: Hearing ... Pursuant to S. Res. 106 |
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Admiral CAPERTON Alvarado ambassador American citizens ammunition Angeles arms army authorities BARTCH Betancourt Bonillas BYAM Cabrera Calexico Calzado Cantu Capt Central America CHAIRMAN CHAMBERLAIN church committee Congress constitution Cruz decree Department of Justice Diaz Eagle Pass El Paso election fact Federal Felicista Felix Diaz force foreign friends GATES German Godchaux Gonzales Guatemala Guaymas HANSON Honduras Huerta Irias JONES KEARFUL labor lands Laredo letter likewise Madero matter ment Mexican consul Mexican Government Mexico City military Mother ELIAS O'SHAUGHNESSY Oaxaca Obregon Orleans party Paso Peralta pesos petroleum plans Porfirio Diaz President Carranza President of Mexico protection referred regarding revolution revolutionists Rosales Salvador San Antonio secretary secure Senator BRANDEGEE soldiers Sonora statement Tampico TEITLEBAUM telegram testimony tion told troops United Venustiano Carranza Vera Cruz Villa Villistas Washington Yucatan
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Page 3154 - Private property shall not be expropriated except for reasons of public utility and by means of indemnification.
Page 3027 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 3116 - The Nation shall have at all times the right to impose on private property such limitations as the public interest may demand as well as the right to regulate the development of natural resources, which are susceptible of appropriation, in order to conserve them and equitably to distribute the public wealth.
Page 3116 - The ownership of lands and waters comprised within the limits of the national territory is vested originally in the Nation, which has had, and has, the right to transmit title thereof to private persons, thereby constituting private property.
Page 3325 - In the present case it waits before recognizing General Diaz as the President of Mexico until it shall be assured that his election is approved by the Mexican people, and that his administration is possessed of stability to endure and of disposition to comply with the rules of international comity and the obligations of treaties.
Page 3137 - No minister of any religious creed may inherit, either on his own behalf or by means of a trustee or otherwise, any real property occupied by any association of religious propaganda or religious or charitable purposes. Ministers of religious creeds are incapable legally of inheriting by will from ministers of the same religious creed or from any private individual to whom they are not related by blood within the fourth degree.
Page 3117 - Affairs to be considered Mexicans in respect to such property, and accordingly not to invoke the protection of their Governments in respect to the same, under penalty, in case of breach, of forfeiture to the Nation of property so acquired. Within a zone of 100 kilometers from the frontiers, and of 50 kilometers from the sea coast, no foreigner shall under any conditions acquire direct ownership of lands and waters.
Page 3267 - The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations. But it is not necessary to constitute war, that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States. A war may exist where one of the belligerents, claims sovereign rights as against the other.
Page 3118 - Article 33. — Aliens are those who do not possess the qualifications prescribed by Article 30. They shall be entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I., Title I, of the present Constitution ; but the Executive shall have the exclusive right to expel from the Republic forthwith, and without judicial process, any foreigner whose presence he may deem inexpedient.
Page 2678 - No city of the new continent, without even excepting those of the United States, can display such great and solid scientific establishments as the capital of Mexico.